While the unemployed are scrambling to find a job in the recessionary market, one man is going to great lengths to play hooky -- stabbing himself in the leg to avoid work.
Aaron Siebers, 29, admitted he knifed himself in the leg because he didn’t want to go to work his shift at a Blockbuster Video Store in the Colorado town of Edgewater, reported the Denver Post.
Siebers showed up at Blockbuster Monday night with a deep leg wound and… Continue
A woman suing her Nigerian husband for millions started screaming and ripping off her clothes before her arraignment on Wednesday on charges of threatening to kill a Brooklyn judge.
Cheryl Uzamere, 50, known around courthouse circles for her anti-Semitic screeds against judges and others, was declared mentally unfit and taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
"You're going to pay for taking food out of my daughter's mouth," said a… Continue
As groundskeepers cleaned the Yankee Stadium field in preparation for Game 6 of the World Series, just 10 blocks away investigators were cleaning two housing projects of two violent South Bronx drug gangs.
Federal agents and police arrested 37 drug dealers named in six federal indictments that brought down two major gangs that openly sold drugs in the Melrose Houses, Jackson Houses and the surrounding Morrisania neighborhood, investigators said.… Continue
Chris Brown seems to be competing with Rihanna for attention, and will even air his dirty laundry the same day she’s set to open up about being assaulted by him.
Brown has taped a segment for MTV about the incident that’s set to air this Friday – the same day Rihanna appears on “20/20” to publicly speak on what happened for the first time. (The first part of the interview will air Thursday on “Good Morning America.”)
Looks like Chris Brown's past might haunt him "Forever."
The scorned singer is attempting a comeback with his "Fan Appreciation" tour, which kicks off next week, but he hasn't had much luck filling even the small venues he's set to perform in.
The gigs - which start at the House of Blues in Houston on Nov. 14 and end in the Big Apple's Nokia Theater on Dec. 15 - aren't even close to sold out. In fact, anyone who's interested can still… Continue
FRESNO, Calif. - A 14-year-old with a baby face told investigators he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor in a bathtub then hid the body in a dryer because the child was going to reveal the teen molested him, according to an affidavit released when he appeared in court Wednesday.
Raul Renato Castro, dressed in a purple T-shirt issued at the juvenile jail, appeared emotionless while staring at his hands in Fresno County Superior Court.
Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the White House, becoming the first NYPD Commissioner in city history to admit he's a felon.
Kerik stood with head bowed in White Plains federal court, working his way through admitting to eight charges that will also include theft of honest services and tax evasion.
With his corruption trial set to begin next week, Kerik worked out a last-minute plea deal in which prosecutors dropped… Continue
The Yankees had won the World Series again, and they all came running for Mo Rivera and this was all the Yankee Stadium night you could ask for now. Any Stadium. Rivera had gotten the last out of another Series, and now players from one of the great Yankee teams, which is exactly what this one became in the end, seemed to come running from everywhere, maybe even from across the street, on the night when the Yankees were finally back to being the… Continue
MediaTakeOut.com just learned that Beyonce is close to become one of the WEALTHIEST WOMEN in all of entertainment. According to one of our MOST RELIABLE industry insiders, Mathew Knowles is close to finalizing a deal that would have Beyonce become the RESIDENT PERFORMER at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
And get this . . . the deal is reportedly worth $500,000,000.00. Or $100 million a year for up to 5 years.
Wearing one of Lady GaGa's one-piece castoffs and the remains of Britney's pre-conservatorship weave, Mariah Carey hung out on the beach in L.A. on Wednesday.
The sexy 39-year-old diva took the plunge ... and showed off her photoshop-free curves.
CONWAY, S.C. - A man caught having sex with a horse in a South Carolina stable has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Multiple media outlets report that Rodell Vereen was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to buggery. A judge also ordered Vereen to get counseling and stay away from the Lazy B stables when he's released.
Authorities charged Vereen, 50, after a woman set up a surveillance camera and caught him on tape having sex with her horse… Continue
DICKINSON, N.D. — Three college softball players found dead after their sport utility vehicle went into a pond on a North Dakota farm during a stargazing trip likely drove straight into the water in the dark, authorities said Wednesday.
Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said the women's SUV was found resting on its wheels Tuesday in about 10 feet of water hidden by tall grass, with the doors and windows closed.
Well, that didn't take long.
After only nine months of marriage, Fergie and Josh Duhamel's wedded bliss is being put to the test.
Stripper Nicole Forrester claims to have had a one night stand with Duhamel at an Atlanta hotel a week after he came into the Tattletale club, where she works as a dancer, but the "Transformers" actor denies the allegations.
On Monday, Forrester told Atlanta radio station Q100's "Bert Show," "We… Continue
Nicole Kidman is opening up her bedroom door.
In the December issue of British GQ, the 42-year-old actress discusses all the different types of love that she's experienced.
"I've explored obsession. I've explored loss and love in terms of being in a grief-stricken place, I've explored strange sexual fetish stuff, I've explored the mundane aspect of marriage, and monogamy," she said.
It's Sesame Street's 40th Birthday on November 10th, and Google decided to give the beloved children's TV show a big gift.
Today's "Google Doodle," as the image that appears on the search engine's homepage is sometimes called, is none other than everyone's favorite 10-foot-tall avian friend, Big Bird. He is just one of the iconic characters to come out of the show during it's long history.
Click on the picture and it takes you to a… Continue
Kim Kardashian's a knockout. Literally.
The reality TV star put her good looks on the line on Tuesday in a charity boxing match – and one female fan laid a blow right on Kim Kardashian's kisser, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
The buxom beauty stepped into the ring dressed in head-to-toe pink Everlast gear, but she was soon bested by her opponent, who was the highest bidder in an auction benefiting The Dream Foundation at the… Continue
GUANGZHOU, China — President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of domestic violence.
A former teacher confessed to the murders of 20 women he says he wooed with promises of marriage - only to poison them with cyanide passed off as birth-control pills, Indian police said.
Forty-six-year-old Mohan Kumar confessed to a 20th murder Monday, a 35-year-old woman found dead in a Bangalore bus station, the Times of India reported.
"The confidence trickster used to lure innocent women promising to marry them and then elope with… Continue